Cardigan’s only regular spoken word event, the Cellar Bards, is set to mark ten fantastic years of bringing the best in live poetry and prose performance to the town.

The next event will be an anniversary celebration with special guest poet Adam Horovitz.

It’s on Friday, June 10 at the Cellar Bar, Quay Street, Cardigan, SA43 1HU. Entry is £3. People can sign up on the door for open mic slots. Doors and the bar open at 7.30pm.

Adam Horovitz is a Stroud-based poet and performer. His latest full collection of poetry, his third, is Love and Other Fairy Tales, which was published in October 2021 by Indigo Dreams Publications. 

It was Poetry Kit Book of the Month in January 2022. The book explores love in all its forms: familial, sexual, romantic, narcissistic, anarchic, religious, faithful and unfaithful.

It looks at how love crosses borders and seeps into humanity’s approach to the way we live with the natural and the man-made worlds, and the myths we make.

His first collection, Turning (Headland, 2011), was followed by A Thousand Laurie Lees (History Press, 2014) and Little Metropolis (a CD of poetry and music).

He is one of Ledbury Poetry Festival’s Versopolis poets, and was poet in residence for Herefordshire and the Pasture-fed Livestock Association. 

His second full collection of poetry, The Soil Never Sleeps (Palewell Press, 2018), was released in a second, extended edition in 2019.

It was written, over several seasons, on six pasture farms in England and Wales, all of which eschew conventional, chemical-driven farming practice in favour of ecologically minded, biodiversity-friendly farming.

As Philip Gross wrote of the book: “Unsentimental, many-angled, this is poetry to think with, not to lecture readers but ‘to open them / to the seeds of ideas’ that the earth sorely needs.”

Cellar Bards co-organiser, Jackie Biggs, said: “Over the last ten years the Cellar Bards has built a strong following by providing a friendly and non-judgemental setting where people can perform or read out their work to attentive audiences.

"It’s a sharing experience that builds creative community, vital in these times, and this is a significant celebration of that.

"We are very pleased to welcome Adam back to Cellar Bards to head up this tenth anniversary celebration. He’s been a popular guest in the past and we can think of no better way to mark this special date.”

See The Cellar Bards Facebook page for more information or on Twitter @thecellarbards